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Hello and welcome to MWIRE's 2012 movie preview.

Part two. I'm your host, Steve Megadron Phillips,

and joining me here in this adventure to the

theaters are... TfU and Mike. Optimus Solo. Movie

Revolt Dan. What's up, guys? Not much. Just waiting

for the rest of the films to come out for this

year. Just watching a lot of trailers. Yup. Yup.

I think we should use this intro to talk about,

not really to go in depth, but to talk about

what has happened so far this year. I don't know.

There's a lot of things I'm going to have to

catch up on on Redbox. My main picks for the

beginning part of the year was, obviously, Avengers,

Dark Knight Rises, Amazing Spider -Man. I also

did see Snow White and the Huntsman, a couple

other things. The rest of the year, I'm not too

sure about. I'm just not I mean, I know we're

gonna get into it, but I don't know what about

you Steve for the beginning of the year the beginning

of the year some of my movies that I wanted to

see were better than what I thought and other

ones were worse and then ones that I wasn't Too

keen on such as like spider -man. I actually

enjoyed so Have you had time to watch any movies?

Yeah, I've seen about, I'd say about 20 movies

so far this year. Some of them were ones that

probably technically were released in 2011. I'm

trying to think a little bit here. You know,

Contraband, Safe House, I saw 21 Jump Street,

all the comic book movies of course, Prometheus,

Brave, Ted, Born Legacy, Project X. So yeah,

I've seen that I've seen quite a few It's been

an interesting year so far I'd say as far as

the first half of the year if I was to pick like

Which movie I was most impressed with for the

first half of 2012. It would probably actually

have to be Avengers Dan what about you or your

thoughts on the first half of the year? Okay.

Well, um a few weeks ago I did My top ten of

the year so far that's on the website and that's

pretty much stayed consistent I've seen a few

more films that I've that I've enjoyed Like I

just saw born born legacy, which was enjoyable.

I watched Bernie with Jack Black, which is a

which I thought was really pleasant surprise,

which I thought was a really good movie So seen

about 50 million seconds come out this year so

far Some other ones that kind of I'm actually

just going through my head right now trying to

think There's this movie called the hunter with

Willem Dafoe, which is pretty good. It's actually

available now online. I think it's on Netflix.

That's worth You know, if you have Netflix, it's

worth a watch some other But yeah, and I agree.

I think still that my favorite film of the year

so far is the Avengers The it's very just before

we get into the second half of the year I don't

know if I've ever remembered a year in recent

history that The first half and the second half

are going to be so dramatically different. Yeah,

as far as the types of movies that are being

released, it's going to be like night and day

to me as far as the ones that I've been interested

in. I mean, the first half, there was a lot of

well known comic book movies. There was I don't

know. It was just like there's some interesting,

unique stuff coming in the second half that is

completely different than what we saw in the

first half. Can you, just off the top of your

head, Kevin, list me some rom -coms? Because

it doesn't seem like romantic comedies were a

big prevalence this year. I'm trying to think

if I've even seen any yet this year. I mean,

I guess Ted could... Not a rom -com in the true

sense of the word, but I guess that could almost

be considered partially. Yeah, I don't think

I saw any this year so far. Yeah, I don't know.

It just seems like between Avengers, Amazing

Spider -Man, Dark Knight Rises, Expendables 2,

even though everyone hates it. Well, I was going

to say even though everyone hates it, Born Legacy.

I didn't hate it. If you're looking for rom -coms,

there's actually one really good one that came

out. got buried i think in the beginning of the

year was which was friends with kids it's actually

uh... really good uh... sequel the friends with

benefits no it's more like it's more like the

sequel to bridesmaids in the way because i have

a lot of it it's not at all but a lot of the

same characters john ham uh... chris and steward

me at the ham but it's sergeant scott it's a

pretty it's actually really good and there's

also uh... Take this walk which isn't really

comedy, but yeah, but you're right there It really

hasn't been this has been the year of comedy

It's really been kind of few that we talked about

when we did this You know the spring and summer

preview the few that I remember looking forward

to I Must have missed them or they got buried

by all of the big epic movies Because I don't

even remember them being in the theater. I'm

like did I miss them? I don't have to wait for

them on Netflix now red box. Where do I get to

see these movies? So I'll have to go back to

our list and get the titles and try to look them

up or something. I know too that you mentioned

that I still have yet to see that I want to see.

Hopefully I'll be able to do that in the next

couple months or so. Contraband and Safe House.

Everyone knows I am by no means a Ryan Reynolds

fan. That was a great movie. I'm not a fan of

his comedy because every time he tries to do

comedy the only thing I can think of is Van Wilder,

but I do like him in more serious roles. So I

am absolutely looking forward to seeing Safe

House and Contraband looked really cool as well.

So yeah, I think with that we'll just get straight

into what's coming up for the rest of 2012 before

the world ends. My dear Frodo. You asked me once

if I had told you everything there was to know

about my adventures. Well, I can honestly say

I have told you the truth. I may not have told

you all of it. Bilbo Baggins. I'm looking for

someone to share in an adventure. I can't just

go running off into the blue. I am a Baggins...

Wait! ...of Bag End. Bilbo, allow me to introduce

Phoebe, Phoebe, or Non. Darling, darling. And

the leader of our company, Thorin Oakenshield.

The pines were roaring on the height The winds

were moaning in the night The fire was red, it

flaming spread The trees like torches I cannot

guarantee his safety. Understood. Nor will I

be responsible for his fate. You'll have a tale

or two to tell when you come back. Did you promise

that I will come back? No. And if you do, you

will not be the same. My name is Bilbo Baggins.

Bagginses. What is a Bagginses? He's powerful

enough to change the balance of the world. Imagine

what five tons would do. You're gonna need more

men if you expect to get out here alive. I'm

back. You can't let the contents of that safe

fall into the wrong hands. What's the plan? Track

him, find him, kill him. bigger than this car.

It's passing at one percent its normal speed.

If we play this right, we can take the whole

city. Peace Trees is the manufacturing base for

all the slow -mo in Mega City 1. You know how

often we get a judge up in Peace Trees? Where

you got one now? She has control of everything.

Levels 1 to 200. This is Mama. Somewhere in this

block are two judges. That's not good. I want

him dead. We're gonna have to go through him.

Rookie, you ready? You look ready. Three months

ago you lost the drive containing the identity

of every agent embedded in terrorist organizations

across the globe. 007 reporting for duty. Where

the hell have you been? Enjoying death. I only

have one question. Why not stay dead? There's

no shame in saying you've lost a step. Welcome

to the new MI6. I'm your quartermaster. You must

be joking. All for PPKS 9mm short. It's been

coded to your palm print so only you can fire

it. Less of a random killing machine, more of

a personal statement. Cube 007. I want to meet

your employer. How much do you know about fear?

All there is. Well, not like this. Just look

at you, chasing spies. England and my six. She

sent you after me, knowing you're not ready,

knowing you would likely die. Mommy was very

bad. The two survivors, this is what she made

us. Everybody needs a hobby. So what's yours?

Resurrection. I've been doing this. It starts

to feel hard to love your job when no one else

seems to like you for doing it. It sure must

be nice being the good guy. Nice share, Ralph.

As fellow bad guys, we've all felt what you're

feeling. I'm Zangief. I'm bad guy. Hi, Zangief.

Ralph, you are bad guy. But this does not mean

you're bad. Guy? Zombie! Bad guy! Hi Zombie!

Hi Zombie. Zen keeps saying labels not make you

happy. Good! Bad! You must love you. I don't

want to be the bad guy anymore. Well, abandoned

his game. Where's the rectangle guy? Welcome

to Game Central Station. Trains for all game

destinations now boarding. Everything changes.

Now. Where's Ralph? Stand by. My cupidese is

a little rusty. Ralph's gone to hero's duty?

Get out of this game, buddy! Ralph? You're game

jumping? What's your name? Freakin' Ralph. Why

are your hands so freakishly big? I don't know.

Why are you so freakishly annoying? All right,

so we hope you enjoyed those five trailers which

were pretty much all my choices. I did include

two that I'm really not that, sadly, one I'm

not really interested in, but we'll get to that

when we get to it. Kevin, take it away for August

releases. Yeah, the whole podcast today is going

to August through the end of the year. Now, obviously,

we are most of the way through August, so some

of these are already out, or we may have even

already seen. But we're still going to pick it

up at the beginning of August. kind of said in

the first time or the last couple times we've

done movie previews, we're mainly just talking

about the ones that are wide releases. We're

not saying anything bad about the limited releases

or the independent films or stuff like that.

We're just not covering them in this show because

we already have about 60 movies to talk about.

Right, exactly. Before you take it away, I will

say something about the limited releases or the

independent films. A lot of independent films

don't grab me. I don't know if it was an independent

film, but I was really excited for Drive when

it came out earlier. And I just, when I saw it,

I was like, God, this movie is so boring. And

a lot of the limited releases, it says it right

in the name, limited release. I mean, yes, it's

going to get to DVD eventually, but if we don't

have access to it, we're not going to talk about

it. So take it away with the August releases,

sir. All right. The first one we had on August

3rd would be Total Recall, obviously a remake

of the old Arnold Schwarzenegger film. Now, Dan,

have you seen this? Have not I I had interest

but I just one of those things I just kind of

I chose between that and born legacy and I went

with foreign legacy I actually did the exact

same thing my buddy and I were making the choice

between total recall and born legacy and we went

and saw born legacy instead I do you guys regret

that choice. No, no, I I like all the born movies

Yeah, even I didn't I didn't love the born legacy.

I enjoyed it but I My interest in Tour de Recall

wasn't that great and from what I hear isn't

that great of a movie. I think it's something

I can wait for DVD to watch. Yeah, it's like

it's something you can wait for Netflix, Redbox,

DVD, something like that. It's I will watch it

just because I want to see how they change things

and what they did with the movie. But, you know,

it's an interesting thing, but was it necessary

to remake? I don't think so. Some some of the

remakes I get some of whom I understand like

I get the fact that the 80s kids are Adults that

have kids and they're trying to you know, the

certain times they're trying to play to that

But some of these are real stretches Especially

with some of the another couple that will have

come up later on and then August 8th, we had

Hope Springs and Nitro circus the movie 3d If

anybody wants to chime in on on those two, um,

I don't I haven't seen either nitro circus The

movie 3d looked like basically jackass right

kind of the same type of thing hope springs I

believe that's with like meryl streep and it's

kind of tommy lee jones steve carell Yeah, I

I didn't see it. I have a passing interest. But

again, it's not something it's not one of the

films that you're gonna be like Oh, I can't wait

to go see that in theater. It's one of the one

that I think you think you can definitely wait

on Right steve any thoughts? haven't seen anything

this month however I am still looking forward

to Total Recall despite the fact that I've heard

nothing but bad things about it it's still something

it's like a guilty pleasure you still have to

watch it at some point well yeah I mean the Arnold

one is always gonna be my favorite but I'm gonna

like the updates done to it with modern technology

I love the boring films, so I'm going to see

the boring legacy eventually. Actually, I did

see a movie. I saw the campaign. That movie was

actually hilarious. See, I've heard that from

a couple of people, and it's just something that

maybe the previews do not do it justice. They

don't. Because it's got some really funny people,

and then the previews do not look funny at all.

But everybody that's seen it has said it's hilarious.

Well, have you seen like... for instance like

trading places and Well, they have the two old

entrepreneur Guys in this in the form of You

have Dan Aykroyd and you have the guy from third

rock from the Sun. Mm -hmm the old guy They are

supposed to be brothers and it's kind of reminiscent

of those brothers that were investors in that

movie and they're Pitting the two guys kind of

against each other because it's basically who

has lower moral scale Gotcha and But it's it's

like a thing with China and in business and everything

So it's it's it's kind of a back -and -forth

thing through the entire movie of them bashing

each other I'm gonna give it a chance more extreme

ways than the previous guy. So it's actually

pretty damn funny And since you're not the only

person that said that I probably will watch it

at some point I was just I couldn't get past

the previews at first and Yeah, I was I turned

my nose down at the previews as well And there's

been a couple like that where the previews a

couple comedies lately that the previews just

make them look You know comedies are so hit -and

-miss and a lot of it can be judged by the previews

usually so that's kind of Sometimes the the kiss

of death for some of these movies then we had

the odd life of timothy green that just let me

let me just a bit here um i i'm all for people

giving stuff a negative review and people are

entitled to their opinions but i i have to see

the born legacy for myself before i take anyone's

word that it's a bad movie Hadn't heard that

from anybody you're the this is the first time

I've heard that people were given it Maybe I've

just been out of the end and gave it two stars

on on the site So I gave it two and a half star

still I've heard both from I've read Dan's review

and I've also heard from the the Canadian crew

over at this week in geek and but they don't

count well, right, but they didn't like it that

I think the what the Born Legacy's problem is,

and I don't think this is a spoiler, if it is,

you guys that haven't seen it can cover your

ears. It takes place at the exact same time and

continuity as Ultimatum did. So as Ultimatum

is going along, Born Legacy is going along. I

think that even though I haven't seen it yet,

I... believe I'm OK to make this opinion. I think

if they had set legacies, say, 10 years, hell,

even five years after ultimatum, it would have

been better to be able to tell a true Aaron Cross

story. See, I think that's the magic of this,

though. I think that's the. That's the cool part

of what they're doing is that they're intermixing

the two storylines, that they're both coexisting,

that you're moving on with the movie without

the established star, yet he's still part of

the story. He's going to come back and be a bigger

part of the story. And I like all the blending

and the mixing that they're doing with it. And

to me, it's more unique than the standard issue

of we're going to go back 10 years or we're going

to go forward 10 years. Well, I can see that

as well. And I think that Hopefully we don't

know this for sure. You know one way or the other

hopefully and if they do future -born films that

Damon like Well, it's already been stated. I

don't unless they went back on that It was already

stated from the get -go that he was event that

they both were gonna appear in a movie together

Oh, that would be so awesome down. That would

be great as far as Hope Springs Hope Springs

to me is your traditional, and I don't mean to

insult these stars, but your traditional old

world stars in Tommy Lee Jones and Meryl Streep

of having them do some sort of old couple romantic

comedy type of, honestly it reminds me of, what

was it? John Cusack, Diane Lane film. Must Love

Dogs. That's what it reminds me of. Total Recall.

I know my geek credit is gonna get cut up for

this. I don't remember seeing the original as

a kid. At all. And I have not seen it since then,

so... Or I've actually probably never seen it

at this point. So I'll probably go back and watch

the first one first and then catch the reboot.

The campaign, the trailers, just... I know I

get grief for the trailers, but you guys already

said the trailers don't do it justice. I just,

maybe eventually if it hits Netflix. To kind

of continue on here, The Odd Life of Timothy

Green, I've seen so many, so many spots for this

on Disney Channel. Again, it's something I'm

gonna have to come down, come back to in a few

years after the hype has died down. I really

have lost interest in Jennifer Garner as an actress.

Don't know if it's just the movie she's choosing

or if it's her acting ability I'm not saying

she's a bad actress, but for some reason I just

can't get into the movies that she's been in

and I liked her in the beginning like when she

was first You know kind of busting on the seams

and everything This one I Don't know it reminds

me of The other movie that came out quite a few

years back now, I guess with the Another kid

another young boy. What was the name of that

movie? I want to say it started with an A, but

I don't know, it reminds me of stuff that's been

done before and it just has a little bit of a

different twist now as far as using a kid to

bring people back to what's important and to

teach them a lesson, which there's nothing wrong

with that. People need to see it. I just, I don't

need to see it. Any other thoughts on life at

Timothy Green Dan or or or Steve? I have no comment

on that one Yeah, it just looks like you know

your typical Disney movie type of family film

that you know It'll be forgotten kind of just

recycled and forgotten and then I recycle again

with a different title and a different different

characters And I'm kind of stealing Kevin's thunder

here, but August 17th the new action franchise

the Expendables 2 I have not seen the first one

I Want to I want to see both of them obviously

you go into that movie like that with absolutely

zero expectations But I just love the fact that

they're putting all these guys together and that

they've added Jean -Claude Van Damme and Arnold

Schwarzenegger I believe those are the main two

that they added was Chuck Norris in the first

one No, he wouldn't. They added a ton of people.

The only thing that would be better than this,

the only way that it would be better than to

just add all of those action stars would be to

have a movie where they're all playing the actual

parts that they were famous for. Like, I want

a movie that has Bruce Willis playing the die

-hard character, has Mel Gibson playing the lethal

weapon character, or Rambo, or the actual characters

in there. But this is cool. It's funny. I don't

know. It's almost like a spoof on all the remakes

or something. Expendables 1 is on Netflix just

for your information. There's also a making of

Expendables on there as well. They're going to

run out of people to add if they want to keep

going with this. No, the next one they're going

to add, they're talking about adding Clint Eastwood

and they've already, I think, got Nicolas Cage.

What about, who's the guy that Steven Seagal

should be in? Or is he? Yeah. He's in it. No,

there was somebody else I was thinking of, too,

that I was like, oh, they could add him. But

yeah, it's just funny that they got all these

people together. Dan, any thoughts on Expendables

2? I enjoyed the first Expendables. Like you

mentioned, it is what you get. It's like, you

know, coming into it, it's like the Avengers

for old people, basically, with all the different

characters and Sylvester Stallone. But I do like

I do like how they kind of mix it up because

they throw like Jason Statham and Jet League

B in there as well. So that's pretty cool and

Statham was in the first one as well. Yeah I'm

just just how they have a mixture and then then

they have think Chris Hensworth's brothers and

the expendable was too Yeah, I believe and you

know Arnold's back and it's kind of interesting.

I think we're kind of They're Arnold and torture

nigger both have two new films coming out next

year So I'm curious if like we'll kind of get

a throwback to old 80s action movies if this

will kind of You know spring load that happening

because it's I mean they seem to be rather popular.

They're not Overly not killing at the box office,

but I think it they're very talkable movies and

they're ones like people you just have fun with

so We have our next In the end of all the first

one for today as far as animated goes paranormal.

It's a comedy thriller So to speak I guess if

you want to talk about that about a town that

becomes under siege by the undead and Just this

local boy Norman has the ability to speak with

the dead and he's trying to prevent the destruction

of the town from this curse From universal and

focus features. I'm not excited about this one

at all There are a couple animated movies that

I will bring up later that I'm excited about

this just doesn't have to be one of them For

me as I sit over in the GCR TV preview episode.

I'm so sick of this genre. Doesn't matter if

it's animated, doesn't matter if it's live, I'm

so sick of zombie, ghost, I see dead people,

I hear dead people, I'm just so sick of this.

I won't see this at all. Dan? Like stop -motion

animation and this has kind of been a weird year

because it's been like three major films that

came out with stop -motion animation But what

I don't like about like the new stop -motion

is how it's so like lost over and it's like it's

kind of blended into CGI like you can't even

tell Any more that it is stop -motion and then

like the paranormal is like the perfect example

It's just like if you work if you didn't know

you probably would just see which is a CGI film

But again, I'm not super interested in it. Like

you mentioned just like the same type of you

know Voices it's like six cents, but more cartoony

and you know animated The other one that comes

out the same day as expendables and paranormal

is Sparkle which Features of course the late

Whitney Houston. This was her last thing wasn't

it? Yes, I believe so Yeah, so this will have

all kinds of hype and media attention And will

be annoying It'll be a red box rental. It's got

Jordan Sparks as the main director. Yeah. Yeah.

It's actually a remake of like a like I think

a 1976 film. Yeah. But I mean, I'm sure there'll

be a lot of hoopla about it, but that will probably

actually turn me off more towards. I mean, I

wasn't going to probably watch it anyways, but

I'll probably just get sick of hearing about

it and come in the next week or so. Bradley Cooper

is in a million movies this year. Yes, he is.

I don't know how he does it all. And his first

one's August. He's limitless. His first one just

came out as far as the ones that we're talking

about. It just recently came out called Hit and

Run. Dan, you want to start off on that one?

You have any thoughts about Hit and Run? Hit

-and -run actually I was listening to a podcast

earlier this week with Dak Shepard He was like

the star of that and basically the point of that

movie is like they kind of wanted to get back

to the old like comedy chase films like cannonball

run and those type of movies where it's like,

you know You have a chase going on with all these

random characters and cameos and looking at that

trailer It does seem like what they're going

for but a little more raunchy, especially if

you watch the red band trailer It's interesting

that you know, I believe Dak Shepard and Kristen

Bell are actual an actual real couple. So that's

kind of interesting to see them on screen together.

And there's like random stars in that, like Tom

Arnold. I didn't know he was still alive. But

when I first saw like this description of it,

I'm like, oh, this looks kind of forgettable.

But the trailer actually looks like it could

be OK. And I don't think I'd go out in the theater

and see it, but I think it might actually be

maybe actually have some laughs in there somewhere.

It's something like when you're searching for

something to watch on a cold winter day or something

and you've already seen all the movies that come

out and you come across it, you're like, oh yeah,

I'll check this out. That's kind of how I feel

about it. It's nothing that I'm going to run

out and see. Steve, any thoughts on Hit and Run?

It sounds interesting. I've seen the trailer.

It looks funny, so I'm sure eventually I'll see

it. Then we have a couple on August 24th here

again ones that are actually Coming out as we're

speaking being released um the apparition I've

made my feelings clear about Supernatural thrillers

horror paranormal type yeah movies, so I don't

have any comments on that one, but maybe you

guys do I don't then It looks kind of bland and

like the same thing. Again, it's just a lot of

that genre kind of gets bogged down with the

same type of, you know, checklists and same type

of different techniques. It's all kind of, you

know, it gets really repetitive to the point

and then they're cheap movies to make and they

usually do well because people like to go to

the movies and get scared. So we get so much

of them, especially the closer we get to October.

Yeah, it's like you can't take any of them necessarily

serious. They have their day in the sun and then

you never hear about them again. um and then

did you have any thoughts on the apparition no

i i don't care for any of those fake ghosty ghost

movies kind of like paranormal activity which

is complete garbage yes and then we get the interesting

i can the trailer for this just makes me laugh

every time i see it um premium rush uh not only

does um Bradley Cooper have a ton of movies Joseph

Gordon -Levitt has a ton of movies. Yeah, he

is definitely enjoying his time right now and

Yeah, the the bike chase That's all I can think

about when I see the hear anything about this

movie is Joseph Gordon -Levitt We've we didn't

want to do a car chase. So now we are on bicycle

You know the first thing I thought of my when

I saw the trailer I'm like hmm put him in a cop

uniform and it's Pacific blue all over again

And I love that TV show Pacific Blue. I don't

know. It seems to me that this is a... I don't

even know if it's a cross. It reminds me of...

Reminds me of Phone Booth or whatever that one

was. Yeah, it reminds me. It's probably a cross

between Phone Booth and Enemy of the State only

because the kid that got killed on the bike in

Enemy of the State, it was a bike chase in the

middle of the streets. I don't know. This is

not something I will see in a theater. I like

Joseph Gordon -Levitt and I'll see most of his

movies and I'll give him a chance, but this to

me just, I can't wrap my head around getting

interested in this one. It might be good, but

he's on a bike. Anybody else have any thoughts

about Premium Rush? It feels like the people

who did that movie were obligated by some contractual

reasoning. Sometimes it's like, I don't know,

it seems weird that Joseph Gordon -Levitt...

Levitt would be in that and I think really Yoda's

in it's just it's a random combination of people

and it's just I don't know it just seems like

one of those movies people they had to make a

movie for the studio they're like oh I guess

I'll sign up for this one yeah just I don't know

I have no words for premium rush nope lolis though

I am definitely gonna see this at some point

even though the poster for it looks like the

most ridiculous thing I've ever seen in my life

If you see the one poster with Shia Laveau Oh

The two guns across making an X with his hands

with the guns pointed in both ways It looks like

a bad like male stripper porno type Poster to

me. I don't know. It just looks awful. It looks

you saving graces for this movie or Tom Hardy

and Gary Oldman Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

I am gonna watch it sometime. You know Kind of

like the epic gangster tale type thing. I like

those types of movies, so I will watch it. But

I'm not going to go in with expecting it to be

fantastic. And I'm hoping the nudity that is

involved in it is not shy. No, but it probably

is. OK, between August 24th and the 29th, between

Premium Rush and Lawless, we have three stars

from The Dark Knight Rises. Between the two movies.

You got Joseph Gordon -Levitt in Premium Rush,

and you got Oldman and Tom Hardy in Lawless.

That's true. That's interesting. They were done

with the other movie, they had time to start

their next one all at the same time. Well, I'm

not saying... I just find it really interesting

that, you know, after they complete that big

of a film that... I'm not saying they shouldn't

go back to work, obviously, but I'm just saying

I think it's interesting between two films that

come out with a week's time of each other. that

they have three stars from the biggest comic

book movie of the year. Well, maybe the biggest

comic book movie of the year. And then we round

off August with another horror film, The Possession.

No one cares. But in a way, to sum up August,

I know we're most of the way through it. To me,

this is the... Like the slow month out of the

group that we'll be talking about it was the

aftermath of all those big comic book you know

superhero movies before we get into the next

phase and it's kind of like a Besides born legacy.

There wasn't anything in this month that I was

like really looking forward to Mmm, Dan thoughts

on August Yeah, August is usually a dumping ground.

There's usually not much there last August There

was a few good like surprise hits like rides

of the planet of the apes But this year we really

didn't get that. I am actually really interested

in lawless I think it has a pretty strong cast

like we mentioned Tom Hardy Guy Pierce Shia LaBeouf

if you want to count him as well But besides

besides that yeah, it is kind of just like there's

not much. It's really weak It's kind of just

you know, I think this weekend in particular

is kind of like the One of the worst weekends

of the year, actually. Yeah. I know this probably

doesn't matter because it's not happening, but

Steve, do you think retaliation, if it went up

against expendables to it, would have been buried?

It would have held its own. It would have held

its own. They're two completely separate things.

I mean, yeah, they're both action movies, but

they're still completely different separate things

because... It could have easily come out this

weekend, though. Oh yeah, most definitely. But

no, there's that pesky 3D crap. Well, it's not

just that, it had to do with what's his name.

Bad audience tests, yeah. No, Duke. Well, yeah,

it was a combination of three things. Duke's

popularity, you know. Well, the fact he didn't

have enough screen time and they killed him off

early. Right, right. 3D, you know. I swear to

God they're gonna put him in a coma once it releases

in March. I would laugh. That'd be awesome. Anybody

else have thoughts on August? Steve? Overall,

it kind of, I mean, other than like Expendables

and the Bourne movie, it's a wannabe action month,

but it's kind of like blah. Yeah. Alright, then

I guess we can move on into September. There's

not a ton. coming out in September, but there

are some interesting ones along the way. And

this is when I think it starts to get interesting

as far as some unique ideas for films. We're

not just getting your remakes, your sequels,

your, you know, whatever retellings of different

stories that we've heard before. We start to

get some very unique ideas. And that starts with

September 7th, which is one that i'm really looking

forward to maybe not everybody else but there's

one called the words bradley cooper ding ding

ding is bradley cooper again um this one just

really really looks interesting to me um you

got jeremy irons and dennis quaid in there as

well as zoe uh saldana who is phenomenal um You

know, you have a crush on her. Yes. And I just

think there's a lot of layers to this. The whole

story about this guy who needs to publish something,

you know, he's sought after and he can't come

up with anything and then he uses someone else's

words and it kind of comes back to haunt him

in a way. And I just think there's a lot of story

here and it's something unique, something I haven't

seen before and I'm really looking forward to

it. Plus, I love the cast. I might get stoned

for saying this, but this... I know this is more

on the serious side, and I really do want to

see the words. It reminds me of Stranger Than

Fiction with Will Ferrell, honestly, a little

bit. Well, I mean, they're both about books,

but I think this one's going to have a lot more.

Right. This one's not a comedy. No. Oh, no. No,

but I'm just saying like the whole book angle

and that whole thing, it just kind of reminded

me of that. Dan, any thoughts on the words? I

think it could be really good. I think that movie

could be. one of the best movies of the year

or it could also be just overly melodramatic

depending on how they play it because sometimes

when you have like those types of stories where

you have two stories going the one that kind

of intertwine it can be you can make the main

story more powerful or it can just kind of hamper

all the drama but uh i'm bradley cooper is actually

kind of becoming a very respectable actor which

i never thought i would say but he's doing a

lot of different types of acting yeah He's one

of those guys that can do comedy. He can do drama

I mean, I haven't seen him do action, but he

seems like he might be even suitable for that

He used to do action. You saw the a -team didn't

you? Unfortunately, and he's limitless kind of

had a little bit in there too. Yeah. Yeah, that's

right Jeremy Irons could actually steal the show

on this one He looks like he's got a cool character

to play Jeremy Irons steals the show and anything

the only thing I'm slightly worried about is

that it has a PG -13 rating And It seems like

there's a little bit I thought there was gonna

be I don't know if I was just expecting a little

bit of more darker Tones to it. Maybe at some

point, but maybe they do it in a way that they

can still get that PG -13 rating So maybe it's

okay, but that just just a little hesitation

on that not Again comparing Cooper films wasn't

limitless PG -13 and that did a lot. No, I think

that was our Thinking of the one scene when he

is drinking a certain substance after someone

gets I'm just thinking of that. I'm thinking

that was when he was singing for the the whole

idea of it's suggestive as far as the addiction

or the almost No, no, I'm looking on Netflix

limitless is PG -13. That surprises me But yeah,

the words I'm definitely looking forward to me,

too Steve it looks like it'll be alright. I'm

I'm not into those kind of films, but it looks

alright The next one on the list I'm gonna let

you guys talk about because I'm just not into

these types of movies Which is Resident Evil?

Retribution on September 14th give it I'm gonna

see it, but I'm a fan of the I'm a fan of the

franchise I don't get into very many horror films,

but this is one that I like just because it's

a kind of an almost mindless shut your brain

off, just watch it and see things get blown up.

Granted, none of them in any sense of the word

kind of correlate between each other. Even though

they have some of - They don't correlate to the

games either. Well, they weren't meant to to

begin with because Alice isn't even in the games.

It's that's the only consistent character they

have random People that show up off and on throughout

the films or like the last film. I thought was

the best one out of all of them just Overall,

and they had some of like the prison break effects

to it. Well this one. I'm not sure what to think

Considering they still don't explain where the

hell some of these people disappeared to after

they ended the last film And they're not in this

one So it's kind of I don't know it's It's another

one of those ones that probably should die but

I Don't see it going anywhere Being that people

just like zombies at this point in time and people

like seeing things get blown the hell up So I

I will be seeing this Well, and I and I could

see how anybody that you know, that's a fan of

the series Should probably be excited for it.

I just never played the games I've never seen

any of the other movies So at this point it would

be silly to jump in midstream or towards the

end of the stream for me One thing about the

franchise of the Resident Evil franchise I always

found interesting is like the names of those

films are so interchangeable Like you could really

take the title from any film and put it on any

other film Just kind of throw whatever word they

want on there. It's like retribution apocalypse,

whatever It's just I my wife and I kind of have

a weird unhealthy relationship with this franchise

Like we end up somehow we find ourselves in the

theater watching it and we're like, how do we

get here? But Ended up mildly enjoying them.

I don't know it like it like Steve said it's

kind of a turn -your -brain -off type of movie

and it's kind of what I liked about the last

one was the 3d which I'm not a fan of but I like

when people use it as a gimmick and aren't really

serious with it and it's a movie that kind of

it realizes ridiculous and You can find some

enjoyment there. But uh it I'm surprised it keeps

going because it's like it's never -ending. What

is it like the sixth movie? I don't even know

anymore Fifth one. Wow. And then we get a foursome

of movies on September 21st. The one that we've

probably seen the most previews for is Dread

3D. And I remember sitting in the theater with

my buddy the first time this trailer came on

before we had ever seen it anywhere. And he knew

it immediately that it was a Dread movie. I don't

know if he was a fan of the original Judge Dread.

I've never seen that this is a sequel to that.

This is a it's it's more so a remake a retelling

of the story The original judge dread with Sylvester

Stallone and Diane Lane Also, Rob Schneider is

in it It almost looks like it's more suited for

nowadays time and visual effects than it was

back in the day. Right. I mean, the original

movie was kind of campy. It's set in the future.

The thing with the original Judge Dredd is, ever

since I was a teenager, I always loved getting

the movie novelization books before I saw the

movie, just because I wanted to read up on it.

And the movie novelization for Judge Dredd, the

Stallone movie, has so, it goes so much more

in depth into the backstory of Ollie Meyer. That's

one of the characters in it. And then it has

a lot of the same stuff that's in the film. I

think, what's his name? Carl. Oh God. Urban.

Yeah. Yeah. Carl Urban is an amazing. casting

choice for Judge Dredd if you're not going to

use Stallone. I know that the Stallone movie

had a lot of camp in it. It was kind of campy

and a lot of people didn't like it. I did enjoy

it. I thought it was kind of cool. I think this

one looks like it could be entertaining. I'm

looking forward to this one, actually. For me,

I actually equate this to... Punisher 2004 and

Punisher Warzone. Whereas Punisher 2004 wasn't

campy, but it was a serious movie, but it didn't

have as much violence as Warzone does. Whereas

Judge Dredd had a lot of camp in it, and this

one takes it more of a serious side, and I'm

really looking forward to it. Dan? Actually,

I'm actually quite looking forward to this as

well. I don't know if you guys saw a movie that

came out earlier this year, The Raid Redemption,

but the plot of Dread 3D is very similar. The

idea of being stuck in a building and having

to go up all these different floors is exactly

like The Raid Redemption. I'm not saying they

copied each other because they're coming out

at the same time, so it's nearly impossible.

The Dread comic book was always this raw comic

book that... You know even more so than like

a Batman and it's kind of getting kind of the

movie it deserves I would say The special effects

look kind of look really good the the slow -motion

cameras that they're using and Again, not a friend

of 3d, but this does seem like it's using it

very effectively So I'm not saying I'm gonna

see it in 3d, but if I had the choice, maybe

I would And then we also have end of watch coming

out on the same day. Now this is an interesting

one obviously because it's all shot with handheld

HD cameras of the police officers and everybody's

surveillance cameras so like visually it's going

to be a I mean it's not like the first movie

to do this or anything but it's going to have

an interesting look to it starring Jake Gyllenhaal

and Michael Pena also Anna Kendrick who's been

obviously doing a lot of stuff lately. The problem

with something like this to me is What is going

to separate this from your typical cop movie?

Yeah. Um, I know that they're here. Yeah. I mean,

I know they're in L .A. I know there's going

to be eventually there. They get accidentally

involved in like a organized crime type deal.

I don't know. All these movies start to blend

together for me. I think the one thing that could

separate it is is Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael

Pena, because they're both. Pretty quality actors

when I when I saw the trailer I didn't I'm like

this may I'm surprised it took them this long

to come up with the idea of Doing a found footage

cop film or something like it makes sense with

cops and all the other found footage movies that

we have but Again, it could just it looks I don't

know. It doesn't seem like it's getting that

much of a push It doesn't seem like there's that

much faith in it. So usually when that happens,

it's not a good sign So like it is interesting

to see Jake Gyllenhaal in that type of role though

For me because I always just don't I don't and

I look for him. I don't know it looks different

to me It feels different from him. I mean, maybe

he's done stuff similar, but that's not how I

think of him. So I Don't know kind of expands

his Diversity for me Maybe I just haven't seen

movies that he's been like this before He was

he was in jarhead. I guess would be the only

thing I would see. Yeah, that's true But I don't

I don't know if he ever played like a cop per

se I don't know And then we have House at the

End of the Street, which is a horror slash thriller,

which I don't have any comments on. But the one

I'm looking forward to the most on that day would

be Trouble with the Curve. Clint Eastwood, John

Goodman, Justin Timberlake, Amy Adams. It doesn't

seem like it should be possible, but Clint Eastwood

is somehow like getting better the older he gets.

And he was already good to begin with. Yeah,

like he can't miss it seems like recently. And

now this one he's playing, you know, kind of

like a scout for a baseball scout that's having

problems with his vision, getting older, you

know, wanting to cash it in a similar character

to Gran Torino, I guess, in a little bit made

minor ways. This one just looks like it's going

to be good to me. I don't know. Maybe I'm. Do

you think this could be the next field of dreams?

No. No, I mean they're both baseball movies.

No No to me it has more things similar. I know

it just came out so it's easy to say that but

it has more It's more like moneyball in a way

Yeah, because it's him almost going the opposite

way where it's like almost like a response to

it where he's saying You know, you can't judge

everybody by the computers. You can't judge everybody

by the numbers You need the actual human factor.

You need the scout out there, you know Judging

instincts and personality and character So it's

almost more like that in the reverse Yeah, that's

that's funny that you say that because that's

the thing I wrote down was it's the anti moneyball

So it's kind of like the first thing I thought

of when I saw it But the funny thing is the same

people that love moneyball are gonna love this.

Yeah. Yeah, it's just like it's kind of like

the story that uh The backstory of the people

that are at that table that with my with Billy

Bean But it does have a really strong cast so

it could be quite good Anytime John Goodman shows

up. I gotta become interested. Yeah any thoughts

on Any of the ones from today that we haven't

September 21st releases that you haven't had

a chance to talk about The house at the end of

the street only reason I would have any interest

in that is because it has Jennifer Lawrence in

it and I think she's pretty fantastic but again

besides that it's it's kind of a running theme

another movie that's about some type of slasher

slash ghost slash something that isn't all that

interesting or all that creative so yeah and

then we follow it up then with The next week

of September, like I said, there's not a ton

of movies that seem to be wide release in September,

but we have another animated one, Hotel Transylvania.

Now I know this seems like it's still with the

whole, you know, undead and the monsters, but

this one I will give a better shake to than the

other ones that we've been talking about, Paranorman

and the one that we'll talk about coming up.

This one's directed by Tartakovsky. Dracula's

owner of a hotel, which is a five -star resort

for the world's monsters invite some animals

Samler Yeah, invite some of the most famous to

celebrate his daughter's 118th birthday and then

a human shows up and He's got to try to protect

his daughter from falling in love and like I

said the cast Adam Sandler Annie Sandberg Selena

Gomez Kevin James Fran Drescher Cee Lo Green

Steve Schemi Molly Shannon David Spade. So I

mean it's got a lot of Comic lot of Saturday

night live people in it. Yeah, I actually think

this one might be okay I'm not gonna run out

and see it in the theater. No, I'm not either

I will but I won't be opposed to be watching

it when it's on Netflix or something. Yeah Dan

thoughts on Hotel Transylvania I really don't

have a strong interest in it at all be honest

with you, but it could who knows it could be

good but Just it didn't it didn't catch my eye

I guess you'd say but maybe it's like those comedies

where it The trailers don't do it Justin and

it's a lot better than the trailer lights on

but for me it just Something I wasn't all that

interested in I like the idea of the concept

of kind of having all these different characters

in one location But I kind of wish like they

if you watch the trailer they indicate like oh

There's a human and trying to hide the fact that

you know, there's a human. I kind of wish that

was just about the monsters in a way, but it

could be an interesting dynamic, but I think

it would be kind of cool if it was just about

how these monsters get along. It's funny when

I was watching the trailer, I kind of had like

a throwback to like the DuckTales, because I

felt like there was like an episode of DuckTales

that had a similar idea where all the different

monsters showed up, but I could be forgetting.

I think it's going to be interesting to see how

this cast pulls it off as far as the voice cast

goes and, you know, if they're all just using

straight voices that they usually use or if they're

changing them up a little bit. I can't remember

the trailer too much, but... They change them

up a little bit. Yeah, and I'm an Adam Sandler

fan, so I'll definitely give it a shot at some

point. At some point, I will be seeing it anytime

soon. Steve, you're going to be running out to

the theater on that one, right? Oh, yeah. Excellent.

So you'll have to report back once you've seen

that one so I can know how soon I need to watch

it. Gotcha. It's carrying on like what I said

with the unique ideas. To me, this one's a unique

one. I'm not going to go in with huge expectations,

but I like the unique idea for it, which is Looper,

Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon -Levitt again.

And it's just interesting because there's time

travel involved and there's this kind of Idea

that he's out to kill himself This when I read

the plot synopsis the first thing I thought of

was oh, hey, it's the sequel to in time I I do

want to see it. I mean, I liked you know from

what I saw in the trailer and and whatever else

but as soon as I heard that flatten like wow,

this is It's very similar. It's not the same,

but it has the same similar thing about time

travel, whereas in time it was, oh, time is money,

whereas this is time is a black market commodity.

loop to go back in time and to get rid of people

when the mob wants him to get rid of. And the

idea is that they want to close that loop. So

that's why they've sent his future self back

to be killed by his. I mean, I'm sure there's

a little bit of confusion there as far as trying

to explain that. But I think it could be interesting.

Jeff Daniels also in there. Emily Blunt's in

there. So it's got a decent cast. Interesting

to see Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon -Levitt.

with each other there. I don't know. I'm gonna

go in with no expectations and I'll probably

enjoy it. Dan or Steve? I'm really looking forward

to that movie. I think it'll be really good.

I like, well first of all I like most movies

that Bruce Willis is in. I say most because he

has been in some pretty crappy ones as of late.

But I do like the time travel thing. It's kind

of a nice take. I'm looking forward to see how

they pull this off. For me, this is actually

probably my most anticipated movie we've talked

about so far Mainly because I'm a fan of the

director Ryan Johnson and he's only done two

films so far But his first film brick which was

actually with Joseph Gordon -Levitt, which was

really good It was basically this noir film that

took place during high school modern times But

it seems kind of like a gimmick, but it really

worked and then he also did brothers broom Which

is kind of like a caper like heist film in a

way. He's really good at getting a genre and

Picking out what's great about that genre So

i'm really curious what he does with science

fiction and him and ryan him and joseph gordon

levitt have a pretty good chemistry with one

another and I don't know if you noticed but in

the trailer Like they really they've did a lot

of makeup with joseph joseph gordon levitt to

kind of make him look like bruce willis You don't

notice that first, but if you pay close attention,

you can kind of see they've kind of Adjusted

his face a little bit. It's a little bit freaky,

but i'm actually really looking forward to looper.

It's one i'm definitely gonna see in theaters

Then the last one that we have for September

is called won't back down My note for this one

is Oprah and all her followers will like this

one And it's like the stand by me or lean on

me of this generation Maggie Gyllenhaal is rallying

the troops, you know, there's teacher, you know,

it's a Trying to create a charter type school

situation Fight the system type thing stand up

for the teacher. I mean, it's going to. Do well,

I would assume. But it's not going to be something

I'm going to run after. I will watch it eventually,

I guess. Yeah, the book back when I first I won't

back down I'm like, oh it's gonna be like an

MMA movie or like karate kid But it was not what

I expected It seems like a very like TV movie

like very like you mentioned like an Oprah book

club type of film It's just kind of I don't know

it could it's one of those that you get dragged

along with like your significant other somehow

and then like You're like trying to fight back

the tears at some point or something One of those

types of movies where you're like, oh god, I'm

actually getting into this movie or something

like that But yeah, it's something that someone

would have to drag me to probably Yeah, I probably

won't be seen won't back down At all overall

just kind of like final thoughts on September

for me the words in dread 3d are the two that

I'm really looking forward to Looper, I don't

think for me is a theatrical watch, but I will

definitely check it out once it hits Redbox or

Netflix. I'm interested in Looper, but the two

that I'm most interested in for this month would

be The Words and Trouble with the Curve with

Clint Eastwood. Just because I'm a huge baseball

fan, so I will love that movie no matter what,

but really The Words is the big one for me that

month. Steve? The only ones I'm looking forward

to from September are Resident Evil and then

Dread and then of course Hotel Transylvania and

Looper, so I've got four I'm looking forward

to Looper and Dread 3D and one I wanted to mention

really quickly It's limited release but the reason

I wanted to bring it up is by the end of the

year it's probably gonna be wide release and

you're probably gonna see it on a lot of top

10 and a lot of nominated A lot of Oscars is

The Master by Paul Thomas Anderson. It's the

movie basically that Tom Cruise doesn't want

you to see. It's about the history of Scientology

and has Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix.

Paul Thomas Anderson, he did There Will Be Blood,

Punch, Drunk, Love and Boogie Nights. So he's

a really good track record. He has a good track

record with Punch, Drunk, Love? I don't think

so. That was horrible. I love punch rock love.

It's a movie that you kind of have to understand

like what you have It's not your typical adam

sandler movie, and I think honestly, that's why

it's horrible exactly I will I will respectively

disagree, but there was never said There there

will be blood was one of the one of the best

movies of last decade uh for sure, um, and like

I mentioned even if if It's one that you're probably

gonna see at the end of a lot of the year It's

not everyone's cup of tea, but for a lot of people

they may enjoy it All right, then moving into

October carrying on my theme of not being able

to get into Jennifer Garner flicks Recently,

there is a film coming out October 5th along

with a lot of others actually on that day called

butter Highly competitive world of championship

butter carving It sounds like such an intriguing

movie that I don't want to even see Now I can

understand Alicia Silverstone having to do this

film because she's not in high demand. But is

Hugh Jackman this desperate? I think he knows

whoever it is in the production. Now there is

some sexual content, brief drug use, and it is

rated R, but I can't take that. I don't know.

I don't find myself laughing a lot in this. Maybe

it'll surprise me. I don't know but I don't think

I'll ever see it. So When I when I saw the trailer

I was kind of surprised it wasn't directed by

Christopher Guest because he tends to do a lot

of those, you know Monumentaries of like the

best in show and things like that where they

take a ridiculous concept like butter covering

They actually make it funny with ridiculous characters

and it kind of seems like that's what they're

shooting for it I think it's it's not getting

that because it Wants to be serious and be funny

and sometimes when you are talking about butter

covering I don't think there's anything you're

gonna do to make people take you seriously but

you know, like you mentioned it could be one

of those things that we talked about how comedy

isn't always greatly represented by their trailers,

but Another animated movie and this is my least

anticipated Animated film of the year Frank and

Weenie for one reason and that is Tim Burton

Well, all of his damn animated movies look the

same. Yeah, I will not watch any of them. Yeah,

I Have not been a fan of Tim Burton since 1989

Batman and Edward Scissorhands if he would have

stuck to all Live -action movies. He might have

been okay. But as soon as he started doing all

this crappy looking Animated slash whatever you

want to call it stuff. I just I cannot stand

that style Mm -hmm that uses and it's the same

in everything and it's just I can't get into

it So I will stay away from Frank and we need

and the stupid sounding title It's Dan what's

interesting about Frankie we need is actually

like he's a remake of his own short film Which

I've never seen but like you mentioned I feel

like Tim Burton He's kind of what was good about

Tim Burton when he started off with was that

her stories were unique and they were interesting

And now it seems to be he's just about making

things look nice or pretty or unique and weird

and there's nothing behind them and Also, I felt

like every movie I went to see this year I saw

the Frankie Wheatley trailer and it's just driving

me crazy and it's because it's like I felt it

is a short movie and like there's nothing more

I need to see I'm like that's and I don't I don't

know I just I have no interest and it just got

drilled in my head so much just by every time

I was in the theater it just seemed to pop up

and I'm just happy to see it out in theaters.

Hopefully the trailer won't be shown anymore.

I honestly think it's a wasted theater spot.

I think it could have just gone direct to DVD

and been fine. Just file it away and leave it

alone. Then we also have oranges coming out.

Somebody call Tropicana, because that's the best

ever. The oranges, excuse me. Now, this is an

interesting. I'm not going to be able to see

this movie because I cannot see anything that

Hugh Laurie is in. I can't stand him. So I won't

see this. But there is an interesting, I guess,

plot to it. It's a comedy slash drama where basically

the girl Falls instead of going for the successful

son of her neighbor ends up with her parents

best friend who is a lot older So there's the

whole age difference between the two and how

everybody's coping with that and dealing with

it So it probably is gonna be funny. I just cannot

stand you Laurie. So I will pass As I just said

somebody called Tropicana cuz that's the best

poster ever Tropicana needs to use that in their

Advertisement it's about to get juicy Anybody

else have thoughts on that? It I felt like we've

seen this movie so many times already just like

it's like the suburban family that has problems

and It I don't know it doesn't seem like we talked

about how horror can be kind of recycled. It

seems the same thing with this It's just a cycle

idea that can easily have just been like a TV

episode of some sitcom And then all these are

the same day Kind of the string here, we've had

a lot of musical type themed movies in the last

year, year and a half. Pitch Perfect joins that.

Anna Kendrick is the big name that jumps off

the page. There's been a lot of things throughout

the rest of the year. I mean, I don't know what

else I need to say about this besides this is

a movie for. I mean, the poster says get pitch

slapped. Yeah, it is it is basically glee the

movie it's What's a funny story about pitch perfect

that I was speaking of Anna Kendrick this movie

I think was made a while ago sat on shelves and

it's kind of coming out now because Anna Kendrick's

in Twilight movies and she was nominated for

an Oscar so some films are kind of they're kind

of waiting and then they're releasing them and

She was talking and people were mentioning this

movie and she was like so ashamed of that movie

It was like someone brought up like, you know

an embarrassing baby photo of her or something

She was just did not want to talk about it So

when leading star is kind of a doesn't want to

talk about the movie that she's in It's probably

not a good sign that it's gonna be any good Yeah,

the only interesting thing I will say about this

next movie besides that. I won't see it Besides

a sinister a supernatural thriller The cast is

very interesting. We have Vincent D 'Onofrio,

Fred Dalton Thompson, and Ethan freaking Hawk.

So you got two Law and Order alums and Ethan

Hawk. Nice. Where has Ethan Hawk been? I haven't

heard his name in a long time. Maybe I just missed

whatever he's been doing and maybe he has come

out with some movies lately, but he plays a...

True Crime novelist, discovers a box of mysterious

disturbing home movies that plunge his family

into a nightmarish experience of supernatural

horror. So I will not see it, but interesting

cast. Sinister is a frightening new thriller

from the producer of the Paranormal Activity

film. So technically this is Paranormal Activity

5. Not quite, but. What's funny, like I don't

know, when I'm watching horror movies now, I

was never a big horror film buff. There's some

good ones here and there, but Earlier this year

the cabin in the woods came out and there's this

interesting scene about like how there you know

There's always that moment where someone gets

into something and suddenly a monster's Unleashed

and they kind of make fun of that and spoof that

and and then like every Horror film that we've

gone through is doing that exact theme You know

this guy finds a box this person finds some a

movie reel It's just it always has to have some

random thing someone finds and then somehow there's

a monster released It's just like you doing whatever

you see if you don't own it don't go to Don't

open it. I guess I don't know. It just seems

to be like that common staple with all these

films The the next one scares me Only because

the first one was just good. The first one was

very good. Well done Liam Neeson Like let's put

it, you know, anytime you take Liam Neeson and

tell him just be a badass It usually works. Yeah,

but there's a sequel to taken Yeah, yeah taken

to where his daughter gets kidnapped again Well,

this time he and his wife get, or uh, Brian and

his wife are held hostage at one point too. So

Liam Neeson is actually being held at one point

and has to have Kim help them. So it's almost

like it flips it. I mean, I will watch it and

I will hope it doesn't like, suck, take away

from the first one. But okay, I guess we'll have

a second take and I suppose. Steve any thoughts

on these other ones from October 5th, yeah The

only one that's worth seeing is taken to yeah,

I'll agree with that for obvious reasons Dana

do you have thoughts on the sequel to taken?

It's supremely unnecessary like Remember when

I saw the trailer for taken the first movie that

I think that made that movie that was just one

of the best trailers I think I've ever seen just

because it was so tense It was such a Liam Neeson

was so great and then this the trailer for taken

2 is just like it I don't know I just it was

forgettable and it just seems like a they're

just trying to Lynch on to the first one so much

It's so unnecessary and I think it's probably

not gonna be very good. Maybe it can but it It

doesn't seem like it's necessary and there's

in it seems very repetitive. It's like oh, you're

gonna be taken again I'm like, okay, let's come

on. Yeah, they almost didn't need to call it

taken too They could have just called it like

retaken or taken again. Yeah taking back. It's

yeah I gotta test your movie Knowledge here your

movie IQ. What's the last movie Ben Affleck appeared

in? Appeared in Well, there was the town that

came out last year. Yeah Okay, that's the one

I was missing He was also in the company men

that came out early that well that was like 2011

too, but I think the town came after that I forgot

about the town. It just seemed like forever since

I'd seen him But I guess it hasn't been as long,

but this is an interesting cast with him Alan

Arkin Bryan Cranston John Goodman again. He's

all over the place this year. It seems like Tate

Donovan and we're talking about Argo from October

12 based on true events life -or -death covert

operation to rescue six Americans and he's basically

trying to Masquerade as a film I Don't know if

he's the one that's gonna be the director or

something and he's trying to get them out as

the crew And it's all the story of trying to

get these six, you know rescue these six Americans.

It looks interesting to me I like this type of

movie. So I'll probably see it. But again, I'm

not gonna go in with like ridiculous expectations

of this one It's an interesting look for Ben

Affleck. I've never seen him with this kind of

hair. Any thoughts on Argo? I'm just waiting

for him to put on a superhero suit and direct

Justice League. Oh, wait. Whoops. This is probably

going to be a wait and see for me. The cast looks

great. The plot looks decent. But at the same

time, I just felt like, oh, this is the same

CIA secret plot. Even though it's kind of based

on true events. It's like just your average spy

movie Any other thoughts on Argo Well, I'm a

big fan of Ben Affleck as a director so far like

I love the town. I love gone be be gone So I'm

kind of curious where he kind of takes this type

of material because what he's done done so far

has kind of been really really deep criminal

type of genre films and this is kind of it's

interesting because if you watch the trailer

it starts off super serious and then as it gets

into the actual story it's almost like a comedy

in a way so I'm kind of curious how that tonal

shift works in the actual movie and Honestly,

I'm quite excited for this. I think it could

be really good based upon, you know previous

track record, but uh it It's one of I think out

of so far of what we talked about in October

I think it's probably one I'm most looking forward

to but we'll see My question is what in the hell

is Kyle Chandler been up to? Last time I saw

his name was on early edition on CBS He's in

it also Steve any thoughts on on Argo? Nope I

am a huge Kevin James fan. Oh boy. Here we go.

And I'm also a huge MMA fan And even though this

movie looks like it's probably as all heck Here

comes the boom. I'm gonna watch I don't care.

Kevin James is a teacher. They need to raise

money because funding has been cut. All the ex

-curriculars have been cut. So he sees like some

guy that loses in an MMA match, you know, that

makes like $10 ,000 for losing and he comes up

with the idea to just go out there and make money

regardless of if he's winning or losing. And

it has real UFC and MMA veterans in it. I'm going

to watch it and just laugh. That's all I plan

to do on that one. When I saw the title and the

write -up for this, the first thing I thought

was, are they going to use P .O .D.'s boom song

in the movie? Here comes the boom! I used to

love that P .O .D. song. I don't know. This probably

is a missed one for me. I'll see it eventually.

Kevin James is just one of those guys that I

try not to miss too many of his movies because

I just think he's hilarious. I don't know why.

Dan any thoughts on here comes the boom It's

what's interesting about MMA. It's how much it's

taken over the spot of boxing and even doing

that now in movies like last year we had warrior

with like Tom Hardy and That was kind of almost

a similar story, but obviously more serious and

now we're having here comes the boom It could

be a fun watch, like Kevin mentioned. I do like

Kevin James. I enjoyed his show, King of Queens.

I think he's a very likeable guy. He's funny.

He's a natural comedian. I'm surprised that he

actually kind of... Has he's a realistic looking

or at least I can buy him as an MMA fighter Not

like really not like I think he could beat people

up But I'm pretty sure he can easily get the

crap kicked out of him And I think I'm pretty

sure if anyone can make that funny. It's Kevin

James. So Steve any thoughts on Kevin James?

I'm kind of waiting to see how this is gonna

turn out. I The the three main cast that it lists

have been in Adam Sandler movies. So There you

go But yeah, I usually like his stuff. So I'll

I'm gonna give that one a shot as well I'm just

excited a lot of different actors that we're

seeing in a lot of these different movies coming

out this year Some people that I haven't seen

for a while or some people that I really enjoy

And that continues with the October 19th release

of Alex cross Back from the days of party of

five on to lost. I love Matthew Fox and I don't

know if he'll be able to pull this role off But

it looks interesting to see him play a complete

freaking psychopath Tyler Perry's also in it

I can't I'm sorry. I I like James Patterson's

books. I cannot see fucking Madea as as Alex

cross. I just can't see that I just want to watch

it to see Matthew Fox and see if he can pull

this off. Right, right. So I'll be interested

in that. Will I go see it in the theater? I don't

know, but I will watch it eventually. Dan? Yeah,

I'm on the same line like Tyler Perry as an action

star or anything that's not his. It seems I don't

know. I don't like anything Tyler Perry does.

He's he I don't either, but he is in the trailer.

He looks like he almost could be proven himself

as legit in this one. Or maybe he just gets some

good lines that they give him. I don't know.

It's possible. I never read the book. Mike, it

sounds like you have. So I don't know if his

character fits that type of role, if that's how

the character is written. I don't know. Matthew

Fox actually looks pretty freaky in that. Went

to town with that role. So yeah, it looks like

he lost a ton of weight But he also bulked up

and I don't know. He just looks like he looks

crazy Yeah, he looks like he'll be the best part

of that movie Steve did you get a chance to see

the trailer for that one? Um No, but I Don't

care for Tyler Perry, you know, but it does have

Yeah, there's there's nothing there for me The

same day talk about a dream lineup for me Brad

Pitt James Gandolfini Ray Liotta and Sam Rockwell,

I Think this is the first thing I've seen Gandolfini

in as far as an actual film since the last castle

He was in in the loop I guess that wasn't really

that popular of a movie, but it's actually, I

think it's on Netflix, but yeah, he's really

after, when he was doing Sopranos and then really

hasn't done much after that. This one is one

of those that has a chance to separate itself

from the, you know, the regular shoot them up

cop. You know gambling mob or whatever, you know

that type of genre I could see this putting itself,

you know out there And not just because Brad

Pitt's in it and all those other guys are in

it It just had a feel to it that it might be

a little better than your typical Movie that

falls in this genre plus it's supposed to have

a comedy Sign to it. It's supposed to be part

comedy part crime So You know, maybe it's not

taking itself as serious as some of those other

ones try to so maybe that'll make it stand out

as well I don't know. I'm interested to see what

the I don't have I don't have really a good idea

of where This is gonna go So I'll be interested

going in to see which direction it takes Yeah,

and we can skip on over to October 26 because

that last one on October 19th No one gives a

shit about paranormal activity I did want to

talk a little about Killing Them Softly, because

I'm really looking forward to that movie. I think

it looks great. It's, again, really great cast

and really good director, Andrew Dominic, who

did the assassination of Jesse James with also

with Brad Pitt. I know you didn't like this movie,

Mike, but I do get a really big drive vibe out

of it, which is a movie I loved. You mean, oh,

Killing Killing Them Softly, you get the drive

vibe out of? Yes, it's the same. It's like the

kind of the gritty raw type of You know crime.

It's faster paced. I wouldn't like drive just

it seems so damn slow It yeah, it's drive was

slow, but it was deliberately slow I don't think

that's gonna you're gonna have the same type

of pacing with Killing them softly. I'm thinking

more so the character of that that like the brutality

of yeah I mean not to harp on it, but For me

the reason what like You know how we've mentioned

that some of the trailers don't don't do some

of the foot probably aren't gonna do some of

the film's justice That was the opposite of Drive

Drive's trailer made it look Like an amazing

driving gone in 60 seconds type heist type film

and then when I saw it I was like, oh my god,

the snail is moving faster than this fucking

movie Yeah, it's a movie you kind of it It's

a throwback to kind of 70s slow -burned films,

but it's it's I don't know But anyways killing

them softly, I think it looks really looks fantastic.

And yeah, it does look pretty good Then we got

five movies coming out that last week of October

starting with The Big Wedding which is worthy

of a mention simply for the Huge cast Amanda

Seyfried, Robert De Niro, Katherine Heigl, Robin

Williams, Topher Grace, Susan Sarandon, Diane

Keaton So I mean Will it be fantastic probably

not but people will go see it Yeah So there's

a romantic comedy for you for the second half

of the movie or of the year Yeah, I think it's

the only one that we've come to which is really

strange, but yeah, I mean you could probably

put Oranges the oranges yeah in there with it

Which is weird. It's like, October comes and

we're gonna throw at you some horror films and

then some romantic comedies in there with ya.

I guess, I don't know. Usually you don't see

those in October as much. At least from what

I can remember. And dude, we're chasing Mavericks!

Yeah, that's based on a true story and that is

still not gonna be enough to get me to watch

it. Eh, it's a surf movie. Boo. It is an interesting

role for, uh... Gerald Butler? Yeah. I wouldn't

have pictured him in that role. But that's all

right, because it doesn't matter what else comes

out this day, because for me, it's all about

the next one, which is Cloud Atlas. I think this

is going to be epically huge. And not just because

Tom Hanks is in it. No, because of Hugo Weaving.

Hugo Weaving, Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant,

Keith David, James Darcy. Susan Sarandon again.

Yeah, I haven't seen Tom Hanks. I don't remember

I mean he hasn't done a ton of stuff lately I

just get the feeling and I don't want to say

this just because it's Tom Hanks, but this just

has that unique Like I don't know it to me. It's

I don't know what to expect from it But I'm really

excited about it whatever it's gonna be and I'm

not a huge Tom Hanks fan. So that's The trailer

really kind of drew me in on this one Dan, any

thoughts on that? On whichever one we're on?

Cloud Atlas. Cloud Atlas. Cloud Atlas, yeah.

That is one of the most epic trailers I think

I've ever seen. It's like six minutes long. I

don't think I've ever saw a six minute long trailer

before, and still have no idea what it's about.

Right. But in a good way, because it draws you

in with its visuals, and you realize it's going

to try all these weird things. It's done by the

Wachowski. for others, and I guess now sister,

since the guy has sex change. Oh! Yeah. It's

the guys who did The Matrix and Speed Racer and

whatnot. One of the guys who did The Matrix is

now a woman? Yes. Oh, god. But you know that

they are really good with visuals, and that movie

has amazing visuals, looks all over it. I think

it could be one of the best movies of the year.

It also could be one of the worst, depending.

and how they kind of manage all that because

it looks it's going to be like a three hour long

movie it seems like with everything they're doing

but the only problem that I can see with this

one is you know I try to go in without expectations

this one I'm going to go in with high expectations

and sometimes that can burn you but I'm definitely

going to go into this one with very high expectations

it is rated R so I don't know I have no idea

what it's going to be about and what direction

it's going to go. But like you said, it is an

epic trailer. I would say it's the most epic

trailer of the year if it was not for a trailer

that's coming up a little bit later that blew

me away. So I'll have to wait for that one. But

Steve, any thoughts on the Cloud Atlas? Or chasing

Americans? It doesn't really. Neither one looked

interesting to me. All right. Cloud Atlas looks

cool. It looks all right, but I'm kind of man.

I'm kind of over some of those I think for me

Just in general here, and I've said this before

Outside of like the early like the early films

kind of like the fast fives and all that kind

of stuff that come out like the earlier months

like April and May and stuff like that For me,

it's summer blockbuster and November December

movies that I actually see in the theaters Everything

else I have a slight interest in, but I won't

really... I don't use my theater going time to

just see a movie that I will eventually see on

streaming or iTunes or Redbox or whatever. Then

we have one that really doesn't need much mention,

Fun Size. That's your basic high school comedy,

teen comedy. Hi, I'm Victoria. This is my brother

Tom my other brother Tom and my other brother

Tom. There's three times in this movie. I Don't

know. I mean, I don't outside of Oh God, it's

what Chelsea Handler screw this movie Maybe one

of you guys has interest in this. No, I only

think I saw the trailer and only thing that Crossed

my mind was because I guess it's a Nickelodeon

felons like Nickelodeon kind of went a little

dirty because it's kind of it's a little bit

raunchy the raunchy team not Completely all the

way, but there's a little bit there. I was surprised

I don't I don't know what Nickelodeon does now,

but it seems kind of little edgier for their

taste But I don't know maybe they're trying to

break out of the mold or something Do we have

any Silent Hill fans? Skip it No, I mean, I don't

know anything about that franchise. So but some

makes it I know that this film has nothing to

do with the previous one. Okay. But there probably

are some people listening that might be Silent

Hill fans. So you have your Silent Hill film,

Revelation 3D, coming out October 26th. Overall

thoughts on October. For me, it's all about killing

them softly and Cloud Atlas. With maybe Argo

having a chance. For me, I'm interested in Cloud

Atlas. It looks really, really cool. Killing

them softly is probably something I would see

Argo as well Taken might be good too. I just

why did they make that? I don't know Yeah Dan

any thoughts on October? I'm around the same.

I think looking definitely gonna see Argo and

Cloud Atlas and killing them softly in theaters

probably see taken too Just because I feel obligated

because I like the first one so much and I'm

kind of like the opposite of you Mike I if I

have a passing interest in a movie I just feel

I don't know Obligated to see in the theater

just because I feel like I'd I experience it.

I like that theater experience over seeing it

at home but you know I understand waiting it's

you can get expensive movies pretty pricey but

uh overall yeah those are the ones I'm looking

forward to the most is that month how about you

Steve? uh the only one I'm looking forward to

is uh taken two for the month all right moving

on to our second to last month here November

um we have a Five movies for November 2nd. The

first one, I'm assuming this is going to get

all kinds of rave reviews and award talk or something.

It's called a late quartet. You got Philip Seymour

Hoffman, Christopher Walken. There wasn't a trailer

on the site that I was looking at, so I haven't

seen a trailer. Yeah, comingsoon .net says, trailer

coming soon. It is about a string quartet of

some sort, and it just has the feeling to me

that people are going to go crazy over it as

far as the awards go. I don't know. Well, just

look at that one name in the cast list. I mean,

soon as anyone sees Christopher Walken, they

go nuts. Well, Philip Seymour Hoffman seems to

be the key these days to get critical acclaimed.

Also, it's like Meryl Streep for the males. Have

you seen a trailer for this one, Dan? I have

not. I looked online. Nothing has been released.

I can't believe that we've been seeing previews

for this next one as early as we have. Flight

with Denzel Washington, which I have a rule if

Denzel Washington's in a movie I see it in the

theater That movie looks really good Yeah, I

mean I will see anything that he's in I don't

care. I don't care how good or bad it looks I

will watch it because I think he's one of the

most amazing actors of the last 50 years and

this looks good it looks interesting it looks

like there's a lot of twists and turns in it

and Don't know again. I think this one's partially

based on a true story as well, right? Yeah So

I will watch that one anybody else besides Steve

and I that have said that we'll watch it. I know

eventually I will definitely see it. I think

it's interesting too, because I believe it's

Robert Zermackis' return to live action. He's

been doing a lot of the stop motion animation

stuff, which hasn't been all that successful.

So I'm really glad he's finally getting back

to real movies, because he's a pretty good director

when he wants to be. We've talked about a lot

of movies with stat cast, and that's another

one. There's John Goodman, Denzel Washington.

How could you not want to see it? Yeah. The next

two, I have no idea what to expect from these

two. The man with the iron fist which is basically

Russell Crowe meets a is thrown into a kung -fu

movie Quentin Tarantino obviously is involved

with this one. I I don't know I don't have Experience

with kung -fu movies and classics and stuff to

be able to you know I have a feeling I'm not

gonna be able to appreciate this one as much

as someone who has a lot of background watching

those types of movies But it looks like it's

gonna be a pretty big production Plus it has

the animal in it Sorry wrestling reference it

has Dave Bautista from WWE in it. Oh, okay. I

didn't realize that With this movie kind of it

it's it looked like one of the kind of falls

in the same lines It's like hobo with a shotgun

and a machete like those kind of ridiculously

movies that are bad On purpose type of movies.

It's directed by RZA who's from the Wu -Tang

Clan So I never thought someone from the Wu -Tang

Clan would direct the movie that Russell Crowe

was in What has happened since gladiator I know

it's it's I I don't really have a huge interest

but just that fact seems boggles my mind Then

the other one that I don't know what to expect

and I'll let people comment on either one that

they haven't if they have any chance But this

must be the place. I'm usually a huge Sean Penn

fan I'm not a huge Francis McDormand fan, but

uh This is an interesting story of revenge type

thing The trailers don't appeal to me, but like

I said, I usually like Sean Penn, so I don't

know I'm the same way. I like Sean Penn. He's

one of he's a great actor. But I don't know just

that character He just doesn't I get he I guess

he's playing him, you know a more muted kind

of character That's really really like numb to

the world, but it just nothing about it seems

all that interesting But who knows? You could

I could see that up for awards because Sean Penn

is we mentioned Philip Seymour Hoffman Sean Penn's

another one that kind of he shows up in a movie

He's pretty much gonna guarantee an award. So

Yeah anybody else have thoughts on either those

last two the man with iron fist or this must

be the place steve nope go ahead mike um no not

not not really because the last one is the one

that i'm really looking forward to the animated

one that a lot of geeks are looking forward to

oh my god they finally made an awesome video

game movie well you haven't seen it yet so you

don't know but it looks like it's got all the

makings of it which is obviously Wreck -It Ralph

No, I do I do have to say before you go on I

do have to say when I first when I just heard

the name of it I was like Disney, what are you

doing? Cuz I I didn't see the trailer at that

point in time. I'm like Doing I saw the trailer

and I did just 180 turn around. I was like, oh

my god. I have to see this Yeah, it definitely

looks interesting The characters that are being

used and not used are definitely causing a lot

of stir and buzz as far as who they were able

to put in, who they weren't, and stuff like that.

So it should be interesting to see everybody

that does show up or doesn't show up. M. Bison

and Zangief. For example will be there Sonic

the Hedgehog is at least Shown and I believe

voiced as well You know you have Jane Lynch John

C Riley Sarah Silverman So I it's gonna be interesting

to see how this plays out and I will definitely

watch it It's not the one I'm most looking forward

to animated wise, but I'm assuming it is for

you For me, it is, yeah. What about you, Steve?

I'm really looking forward to it. At first glance,

I was like, I don't really care. And then after

watching the full trailer, I was like, that is

cool. It's like the more you see about it and

the more information comes out about it, the

better it looks. And I'm not a big fan of a lot

of techno music, but I absolutely love that song

that's in the trailer. I just I think it fits

the movie very very well, and I just really enjoy

it. What about you Dan? Yeah, I'm gonna basically

kind of repeat a lot of things you guys already

said, but yeah, it looks it looks great It's

surprisingly it's not a Pixar film like it looks

and it's not it's Disney Yeah, it looks like

Disney's taking a lot of what they learned from

the Pixar studios and trying to apply it to their

own movies Which I think is a good idea, but

yeah, it looks it looks it's I can't believe

they're actually accomplishing that. Going back

and watching Roger Rabbit with Bugs Bunny and

Mickey Mouse in the same movie, and now seeing

this movie with Sonic the Hedgehog and Street

Fighter in the same movie, I think it could be

fantastic. I love John C. Reilly, so that also

kind of seals the deal for me. And just with

all the different legalities, it'll just be interesting

to see who else they're able to get to show up.

I mean, I know at one point they wanted, and

I'm not saying they are, they aren't. I haven't

read up to see who's all in it, but I know at

one point they wanted Bowser. He's in the trailer.

Dr. Wiley, they talked about Pac -Man ghosts.

I mean, so it'll be interesting to see who in

the end shows up in this one. The next one is

one I am very much looking forward to. Obviously

the history buffing me. But it's funny, we just

talked about Sean Penn and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Daniel Day -Lewis is another one. Daniel Day

-Lewis, Sally Field, Joseph Gordon -Levitt again,

James Spader, Hal Holbrooke, Tommy Lee Jones.

This is not that other one. This is Lincoln.

This is the true story, not that crappy, sparkly

vampire bullshit. It has ties to the book team

of rivals, the political genius of Abraham Lincoln.

This is all about the final months in office,

dealing with civil war and slavery and everything

else that he's choosing to do, and I will be...

Opening weekend probably because this is also

directed by Steven Spielberg This isn't just

something that Steven Spielberg his name is on

this is directed by Steven Spielberg. Yes This

to me Now you guys can argue this but this to

me feels like what? Amistad field felt like when

it came out As far as just the overall scope

of the movie and I Honestly, I may go see this

in theaters this is yeah, I'm gonna unfortunately

have the biggest expectations for this one because

I Don't know. I mean I'm used to Steven Spielberg's

name being on everything mmm and it not necessarily

being good But how many times has he directed

something that hasn't been good? Yeah, really?

I mean his track record is so good Steve any

thoughts on Lincoln? Looks good, but I'm not

gonna see it Dan Yeah, obviously there's not

a trailer so it's hard to say but just looking

at the poster that just recently came out this

week Like it the makeup and the work that they

put in to make Daniel Day -Lewis look like a

look like Lincoln is pretty remarkable And he's

a great actor a great director If you if you

have a fantasy Oscar pool that you this is probably

a guarantee that this is gonna be nominated.

I mean the Academy loves Steven Spielberg You

mean like warhorse like that was nominated last

year But I think I'm it could be one of the best

movies of the year Which is kind of an unfair

kind of expectation that put on a movie But it's

hard not when you look at everything that's involved

Daniel Day -Lewis is so good. Um Going up right

against it and I'm surprised these two are opening

in the same day is The next in the 007 series

skyfall And apparently Mike is not a fan I Again

Daniel Craig, we're staying with him as bond

in this one. Yeah, and it says obviously this

is the 23rd adventure His loyalty to M is tested

as her past comes back to haunter Obviously,

it's your typical 007 movie. How can you ever

judge a 007 or a Bond movie until you've seen

it? For me, it's more so that I'm still jaded

that Brosnan is no longer Bond. I will say that

I did enjoy Casino Royale, but I just... I know

the direction the filmmakers and producers are

going with this and why they picked Craig was

because it's supposed to be telling the earlier

stories before Bond got his double -O status.

I get that. I just fucking hate Daniel Craig

as James Bond. I just don't like him. And Quantum

of Boredom just... is exactly that. It's the

revenge story, continued over from Casino Royale.

I think the plot line here in Skyfall is very

cool, where it's focusing on M's past a little

bit. I think that could be cool. I like the title.

I like the title, too. And the thing about the

trailer is, they have this whole word game thing,

and they say, Skyfall, and Bond just says, done.

Completed or whatever the hell he says So I think

the plot could be good. I'm glad they moved away

from the whole Hey, it's Daniel Craig. We have

to have a continuity of Bond films where You

know Casino Royale to Quantum of Boredom You

know those two connect to each other. So this

could be cool I just think at this point in time

we need a new actor as Bond Steve Bond fan or

not? No, I'm a Borden fan not a Bond fan. How

about you Dan? I'm both, actually. I'm a big

Bourne fan, and actually, I wasn't a Bond fan

until maybe I kind of feel the opposite of Mike,

but maybe I wasn't really a big fan of Pierce

Brosnan as Bond. I found those movies a little

not my taste, but I love Daniel Craig as Bond,

honestly. And the reason I'm really interested

in Skyfall is the director, Sam Mendes, which

is a really inspired choice, I think, for a director,

because he hasn't really done films like this.

He's done like American Beauty, Roach Perdition,

which is a movie I really love. I love the visuals

of the movie. I think it looks fantastic. And

it's kind of it's kind of a great year for bonding

because it's like the 50th anniversary this year

I've actually been going back and watching all

the old bond movies. So I'm kind of in a bond

mode right now So maybe that's the reason why

I'm so excited for this movie But I think it

looks fantastic and I'm really looking forward

to it That franchise is like amazes me because

you know so many times when you have a character

like that Everybody like there seems to be a

consensus like everybody likes this or that But

with Bond, there's so many people in each of

the camps of each of the people that have played

Bond. You have a huge group that Connery is the

best Bond, or a huge group that Pierce is the

best, or a huge group that some of those earlier

ones. Roger Moore. Yeah, Roger Moore, whoever.

It just surprises me how much every one of them

is liked by different people. Think a lot of

that has to do like when you kind of started

like who you started with a lot of people who

started with Sean Connery That's always gonna

be their bond. I think I started I like the first

one really I got into was kissy and Royale So

maybe that's why I I really like Craig I agree

with Mike about quantum assault. So I thought

that wasn't very good I think that suffered a

lot because of the writer's strike They kind

of they had a kind of just like haphazardly finished

that movie and it's you can kind of tell When

I think or I like Daniel Craig and I like, you

know what he's done But when I picture bond,

that's not who I picture. I picture someone more

Like Pierce Brosnan whether it's him or not.

I think Pierce Brosnan fits the image in my head

more But like you said that might be because

maybe that was the first person I saw as it But

yeah, it'll be interesting to see how that one

stacks up with the other 22 films Connery will

always be bond and he will always be Henry Jones

senior but for me getting back like I I started

out as a kid very early with bond I Saw the man

with the golden gun, which is a Roger Moore one.

I saw viewed with kill It didn't really care

too much for Roger Moore, but the one that really

got me as a kid was licensed to kill with Timothy

Dalton but as a like a modern -day Bond fan it

was Pierce because it had been what six seven

eight nine years since there was a Bond movie

between 89 and 95 however however long I think

it was like six years or so I forget I'm not

doing the math right now but like 95 I had already

seen Mrs. Doubtfire and liked Pierce in that

And when he was Bond, for me, he gave Bond a

comical flair that a lot of the other ones just

didn't have. And I love even though Die Another

Day is kind of a movie, I love all of Pierce's

stuff and just the fact that they couldn't get

him back to do the younger Bond or find some

just find somebody else. Go ahead. One thing

I wanted to mention is, see if you mentioned

you're more of a Bourne fan. And I am, too. And

I think that's maybe why I like Craig, because

his style in the Casino Royale film, you can

definitely see how that was influenced by the

Bourne franchise. Just the action is more fluid

and more like that. It's not as over the top.

You don't have the... All the different inventions

and stuff like that. They're more real -world

ish and you know more based in technology And

I think that's kind of it was kind of my lead

-in because I really loved the Bourne movies

and it was kind of an easy You know way to kind

of get into the franchise But I'm actually really

enjoying looking back and getting into all the

other movies as well. So I've never seen all

the old ones and I would really want to Then

we move into what will for sure make the most

money in November Which is breaking down in part

two So that will for sure make make the most

money in November I will eventually see it so

I can see You know all of them and see the how

the story unfolds, but I'm not gonna see it in

the theater Does anybody want to talk about Twilight?

I know I'll be seeing it just not in November.

I'll be seeing it in December because I'll be

having a child born around that exact date. But

it's not a bad series. I'm glad it's winding

out. I want to see how the story ends. Vampires

should not fucking sparkle! Alright, Mike has

made his opinions known. Moving into basically

what will be the Thanksgiving releases for this

year. I mentioned earlier, or Dan had mentioned

earlier, that the, what was it, Cloud Atlas,

that the trailer really blew you away. The trailer

for Life of Pi blew me away. To me, that was

one of the most epic trailers I've ever seen,

and just the visual way it was done, the colors,

the lighting. Everything about that trailer makes

me want to see this movie. I know it looks completely

weird, and it looks like a mixture of all kinds

of other movies that we've seen. To me, it reminds

me of like the vibe I got from Forrest Gump,

but in a completely different way. I don't know.

I'm very much looking forward to Life of Pi.

I don't know why. I just am. Actually, I'm right

there with you. I love that trailer, too. It

just kind of came on and I'm like, you know,

what is this? And I remember seeing it in the

theater and the person behind me when it starts

It's like is that Noah's ark because you know

suddenly a zebra appears and I'm like, which

is kind of funny But uh, yeah, I think it looks

fantastic. Ang Lee is really great with Really

great with visuals. He's you know I know a lot

of people hate his Hulk, myself included, but

he is a good filmmaker when he does things that

I think that are in his wheelhouse. And this

seems like something that should be fantastic.

I kind of get like a tree of life vibe in a way,

like where it doesn't seem like the story is

going to be, it's going to be a strange story,

but it might be very appealing. From a visual

standpoint, like this is to me as a movie that

is one of those that should be better in the

theater. And it should completely capture for

me the magic of the cinema. With the way they

do the visuals and the lighting and like I said

the colors and everything like I want to see

the whole experience I could be completely disappointed

with the story And I could be walking out being

like what the heck was that but it's still gonna

be an experience watching it to me From what

I can tell from the trailer It seems strange

that we're getting Life of Pi and Cloud Atlas

in the same year because they're very they're

not very commercial films you would think but

they seem like they're Yeah, that's why I was

saying like the the second half of this year

is just completely different than the commercial

aspect of the first half of this year With all

these more unique I mean you're getting like

like we said with Lincoln and and Cloud Atlas

and some of these other ones like Completely

different than what you got the first half with

spider -man Batman, you know wrath of the Titans

Avengers, etc. Any other thoughts on Life of

Pi or should we move on to Red Dawn? Move on.

Red Dawn's been done before, correct? Yes, it's

a remake. Okay. Patrick Swayze. I never saw that

original one and this one of course has Thor

in it instead. What's interesting about Red Dawn

that the remake is has actually been in the kind

of MGM has kind of had it for a few years But

haven't been able to release it for a few reasons

one when it was first made the villains in it

were actually the Chinese and They went in and

digitally changed it all and did some reshoots

to make it the North Koreans because China is

a really huge market right now So they didn't

want to piss off the Chinese China market So

they went in and changed everything and MGM is

you know, they went bankrupt. So it was kind

of funny and And Chris Hensworth is also in the

cabin of the woods this year that was also put

on the shelf. So for some reason, he just happened

to be in a lot of movies this year because they're

just getting released now. But I like the first

Red Dawn from the 1980s. It's a guilty pleasure.

It's nothing fantastic. I mean, I loved it as

a kid because the idea of high school kids fighting

against the commies was a great idea. I think

it doesn't work now because we don't have that.

Rival we have we don't have the the Cold War

going on. It just it doesn't have as much of

an effect I think is north. Yeah I did like a

whole paper in college on all the different media

that was You know Cold War influenced and stuff

like that and how we were always, you know against

the same people and yes now it's a completely

different culture and different environment so

you don't I don't know how this would work as

well, but It might be interesting. I mean I don't

know, it looks like it could be an entertaining

movie, and it'll probably watch it, but with

everything else that's being released in the

theater, it's probably gonna be something that

I wait for on DVD or Netflix or something. More

than likely. That leads me to the animated movie

I am most looking forward to probably this year,

which is Rise of the Guardians from DreamWorks

Animation. And to me, this is their attempt at...

Doing what Shrek did for fairy tales this should

do to you know, like the holiday Iconic characters

like that like we have Easter bunny tooth fairy

Sandman Santa Claus Jack Frost, etc But I like

those characters better than I like the fairy

tale characters and Shrek and I'm looking for

big things out of this one Chris Pine Alec Baldwin

Hugh Jackman Jude Law I don't know something

about this intrigues me and that With the exception

of maybe one other one. This is the animated

movie. I'm most looking forward to this year.

I Don't know if it's just the popularity of the

Avengers, but I feel like we're getting a lot

of team -up movies We have rise of the guardians.

We have Hotel Transylvania The Expendables we're

seeing like a lot of movies with all these different

characters coming together I think this one's

been planned for a while. I mean, I know I get

what you're saying, but I think this one was

like You know, they saw what Shrek did and they

were like we got to find another way to You know

kind of chime in on that success in another way.

Yeah, it makes sense I mean, I like the concept

I think the I'm surprised the idea really hasn't

been done before and yeah I know I know Mike

you guys are doing a dream work spotlight right

now So that might kind of you know It's kind

of listening to that podcast would kind of be

a good lead -in to that film Just kind of get

idea of what dream works has done up to this

point Yeah, yeah season two of to cast beyond

more coverings, you know select DreamWorks films

I don't think this is gonna obviously this probably

won't come out in time by the time we have season

two finished as far as production But the beauty

thing about to cast beyond is in future seasons.

We can always go back to stuff that has come

out You know, we can always go back a spotlight

part two whatever else. I don't know. I just

I think past Skyfall, I have really no interest

in anything in the rest of the year. Steve, any

interest in Rise of the Guardians? Or Red Dawn,

or anything that we've talked about? Red Dawn,

I have interest in. I don't know if I'll see

it in theater, probably not. Rise of the Guardians

is very interesting, to say the least. Probably

not gonna see it in theater either just because

November. I'm gonna be busy, but I do like the

All -star cast that they have going for it. Yeah,

and it could be bad I just I'm gonna give it

a shot to me it's out of all the anime movies

like I wasn't interested in brave and you know

all the Hotel not the Hotel Transylvania, but

the Frankenweenie and I mean there's been so

many that I have no interest in so it's like

this one came around and it's like oh I'll give

this one a shot just because it's not those other

ones Besides Wreck -It Ralph of course. And then

of course you have to have your holiday feel

-good movie come out around Thanksgiving and

to me that's what Silver Linings Playbook is.

It's just that one that's like people are gonna

go see with their families or I don't know and

guess what Bradley Cooper's in it. It's it's

funny like Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence

who seems to be in a lot of different movies

are kind of of course they're gonna be in a movie

together because You can't have a month with

them not in a movie. So it's you see kind of

the range though It's kind of like how Bradley

Cooper was in, you know, the other film earlier

in October and how Jennifer Lawrence was in the

Hunger Games you see her in a completely different

character and this so It probably will do well

because it's gonna be that like you mentioned

a feel -good movie about kind of that serious

but still kind of you know tugs at the heartstrings

a little bit. This kind of reminds me of almost

um oh god what was that uh Angelina Jolie Ed

Burns movie life or something like it it reminds

me of that a little bit um I also have to say

that this is the first movie I've seen that Chris

Tucker is being starred in for a while. I don't

remember the last thing I saw him in as far as

live action outside of that crappy, most wanted,

whatever the hell that Madagascar is or whatever.

This could be cool though. I might actually see

this at one point or another. For November for

me. I am going to see Flight with Denzel, but

it all boils down to Lincoln and Life of Pi for

me for November. Those are the two I'm looking

forward to the most. For me, it's most definitely

Wreck -It Ralph. Flight is probably going to

be one that I would check out most likely when

it releases to media. I don't know. Skyfall.

I saw Casino Lake. I've seen all the bonds since

95. I've seen all the bond films and theaters

with the exception of quantum of boredom I May

go see skyfall just because it is a bond movie

and that was kind of like mine November film

every year But other than that there really isn't

anything that I want to go spend theater money

on in November What about you Steve outside of

the fact that you're? I'm looking forward to

Flight, Wreck -It Ralph, Red Dawn, Rise of the

Guardians. Dan? I will see Flight, Wreck -It

Ralph, Lincoln Skyfall. I will probably see Breaking

Dawn because my wife's a fan of that. She doesn't

like the movie, she likes the books, but I will

probably end up seeing that unfortunately. Life

of Pi. Well, um, perhaps read on I'm not really

I don't know. I don't think I'll see that in

theaters Probably see silver linings playbook.

But again, I probably will just wait for that

to come out on DVD or Netflix So that takes us

into our final month our holiday month here December.

I want to start off talking about this one because

I'm just crossing my fingers and praying That

Bill Murray will finally get his due I think

he's one of the most amazing actors of our generation.

And I never think he gets the acclaim that he

needs to get. And Hyde Park on Hudson is the

type of movie that the Academy always swoons

over. And if he gets snubbed, if he actually

turns in and pulls off this role and gets snubbed,

I'm going to be pissed. I want him nominated

for a best actor for this movie, even though

I haven't seen it. It's all about Franklin Delano

Roosevelt back in 1939, which is who Bill Murray

plays The history the historian in me is obviously

gonna love this. I love Bill Murray So I'm looking

for big things out of this one. What is it about

presidential movies in the last half of this

year? Lincoln I mean, I'm not complaining. I'm

just saying it's like holy crap. All the least

presidential movies are coming up Wednesday That's

it. Dan, thoughts on Hyde Park on Hudson? I'm

actually really looking forward to it. And I

completely agree with everything you said about

Bill Murray. If he gets snubbed because of this,

it'll be a shame. I think it'd be really interesting

if we have Bill Murray nominated as FDR and then

we have Daniel Day -Lewis nominated as Abraham

Lincoln. That would be crazy. but I and this

will be kind of like an interesting like counter

movie to like a not counter movie but a good

companion piece with the king's speech because

it deals with a lot of it's the same time same

time period a lot of the same historical figures

but I think it looks really fantastic and Bill

Murray as FDR is a perfect casting it makes so

much sense I agree um then we have our another

romantic comedy joins the group uh playing for

keeps Which, I don't know, maybe since I have

no significant other right now, I have no interest

in romantic comedies, but another Gerard Butler,

Uma Thurman, Jessica Biel, Catherine Zeta -Jones,

Dennis Quaid, so I mean it's got the all -star

cast. It seems like that's the theme lately with

romantic comedies. Like it's not enough to have

a well -written and good dialogue in your romantic

comedy. You must get as many people as possible.

It like reminds me of those, of Valentine's Day

or whatever or New Year's Eve or like... Why

do we need to throw everybody and their brother

in every romantic comedy these days? It's the

Gary Marshall effect. Basically, you don't need

good characters. You just need name recognition.

You get a character that's going to draw this

section. You'll get a hot teen star. You'll get

an older actor. You just pick actors based upon

who they attract, and then that's how you make

your movie. It is directed by the guy that directed

The Pursuit of Happiness. Which I somewhat enjoyed

so I don't know And I think the thing about this

year's romantic comedies and other comedies in

general outside of 21 jump straight because no

one knows who the fuck Jonah Hill is I think

the thing with the comedies in the last half

of the year is that and in most of these films

in the last half a year is they're finally going

back to the name -brand stars that whereas last

year it felt like it was all like newcomers and

people we didn't between the end of last year

and the beginning of this year outside of the

big big blockbusters it just felt like oh hey

here's this person you've never heard of oh hey

here's this person you've never heard of in these

three movies um so i don't i don't mind all these

big casts in a lot of these films that are at

the end of the year which then would take us

to the movie that will make the most money in

december We had Breaking Dawn will make the most

movie in November, and undoubtedly The Hobbit

will make the most money in December. And on

December 13th, 2012, the world will end. So no

one will be able to see The Hobbit. Shut up.

Obviously, all the same people from Lord of the

Rings basically are back. Peter Jackson is different

characters. No, it's all it's all the same world.

It's it's all the same world. But Elijah Wood

is playing Bilbo versus playing Frodo. No, it's

a different guy is it I gotta say when they're

doing the chain in the tray in one of the trailers

for this when They are in the little hut or whatever

and they start doing that song That is one of

the creepiest yet like magical spooky like I

don't know how to describe that moment, but Again,

I like sends chills down my spine when they're

start doing that like little like folk song I

don't know what it is about that. But to me and

I'll let you guys talk here, but nobody knew

Like when Lord of the before Lord of the Rings

came out Like before the very first movie came

out people did not a lot of people did not know

what Lord of the Rings was Everybody knew what

the Hobbit was And to me, if Lord of the Rings,

with not as big of a following before those movies

came out, was as successful, I don't see why

this one won't even be more successful. I know

it's hard to top what Lord of the Rings, the

trilogy did, and I know the last one in this

chapter, you know, one best picture, of course,

with Return of the King and whatnot, but Hobbit

has a bigger original following. You know what

I mean? Like that story was more well known than

the Lord of the Rings. So to me, this one seems

like it has the potential to even take off and

even go further, but maybe it won't. Maybe it's

lost its time to do that. I don't know. Well,

I've been hearing nothing but hype about it as

far as people wanting to see it and everyone

that... I interact with on Twitter, Facebook,

everybody wants to see this movie. Would you

guys say that this is Tokens, not really his

version, but would you say, as far as the popularity

of The Hobbit, this could be compared to Homer's

Iliad? As far as, like, the overall... Well,

I mean, this is... For a long time, this was

his thing. Like, this was the most recognizable

title he had. Yeah. To me, what separates this,

though... is okay you have some of these other

great movie trilogies or however many numbers

there are and then it seems like oh we want to

capitalize on it so we need to make more of these

the difference between that this one here is

that this you know this isn't capitalizing on

something else this is this already existed this

isn't you know george lucus coming up with more

star wars films to make more star wars films

right this isn't you know coming up with another

add -on to another series just to keep it going

like this was around from the beginning so i

don't know i i don't think people are going to

have a problem i don't think people are going

to hold anything against this i don't know i

i i should let you guys talk it's just not like

i've said before i i don't between lord of the

rings and JR tokens other stuff, I don't dislike

them. They're just not my cup of tea. Whereas

on the flip side of that coin, I just can't stand

the Harry Potter crap. But it's one of those

things where I'm just not that interested in

it. To me, it's like the best trilogy, one of

the best trilogies of all time. And I can't wait

to see what this is. Steve, what are you looking

for for the Hobbit? Just to see. how they, you

know, the precursor to the other three films.

Gotcha. Dan? I'm really looking forward to Hobbit,

I think. I love Loaded of Rings trilogy, like

most people. My only worry is how the Hobbit...

It originally started off as two films and now

they've kind of gone to a trilogy and it seems

like that decision was just made recently So

that I don't know that seems strange that they

would wait so long to kind of split it off the

three when you know Lord of the Rings is three

separate books So it makes sense, but the hobbits

only one but it could still be good Only thing

I wish about what the hobbit is that I know Peter

Jackson's directing it which makes sense because

he directed the first three Originally, Guillermo

del Toro was set up to direct, but he ended up

bowing out. I was kind of curious to see his

take on this. I think it'd be interesting to

see someone else's visual style, and he is one

of the best visual styles, but just to see something

different. But besides that, I think it's probably,

like you mentioned, going to be one of the biggest

hits of the year. I know that they talked about

the different types of styles that it has regarding

the 35 millimeter. And I'm not sure if it's in

3D, but it's going to be one of the Biggest broadcasters

of the year Yeah Then we have Les Mis on December

14th with Hugh Jackman Russell Crowe and Hathaway

Amanda Seyfried Helen Bonham Carter Sasha Baron

Cohen. So I mean, it's a huge cast well, and

of course This is also trying to take advantage

of you know, the musical Phenomenon etc and the

Broadway phenomena all that kind of tied in together

uh... my question is why this one though it's

just been done less than well i guess it's been

ten fifteen years now but there is a modern version

with Liam Beeson my question is why the fuck

did they put it up against the hobbit the hobbit

is going to crush this damn movie that is true

Yeah, I don't know that was bad decision on their

part. Nobody should try to go against the habit

But I just don't understand why we need another

one of these when we just had one, you know in

the in modern times I mean, there's other Broadway

musicals and broadways and musicals and all kind

of stuff that you could have gone with I don't

quite get it The only other one I'm interested

in for December is zero dark 30 because it's

a movie about the end of Osama Should be interesting

I didn't get to see a trailer on that one, but

yeah, I don't know. I don't know if I'm going

to be interested in watching that one or not.

I don't know how political that's going to be

and how accurate that's going to be or how, you

know, if someone has an agenda, I don't know.

I don't want to get into the politics of it.

Well, it's. It's directed by Katherine Bagelow.

No idea who the hell she is. She directed the

Heart Locker and she directed Point Break, actually.

She was the first woman ever to be nominated

for Best Director. Oh, okay. I'll let Dan give

his thoughts on these couple films in a second,

but I will not see Jack Reacher because of Tom

Cruise. That is the Tom Cruise movie, right?

Yes. Yes. Yeah, I I used to like Tom Cruise and

now I don't um This is 40 a sequel to knocked

up Very quasi sequel. Yeah, that seems interesting

like seems lame Now they're making just random

quasi sequels to romantic comedies. Yeah The

the movie I most want to see for the rest of

December and then I'll let you guys talk on the

rest of December is I don't even know how to

say it but Django Unchained Oh, yeah. Whatever

it is. Leonardo DiCaprio, who I'm not a huge

fan of, but he does good movies. And this is

obviously set in the Civil War, which is one

of my favorite time periods as far as American

history. And to me, this looks really good. Jamie

Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, Anthony

LaPylea, James Reemar, Jonah Hill. I don't know,

this this one could get a lot of. Award talk

as well, and I think it looks amazing Dan your

thoughts on December films. I'm looking forward

to their dark 30 I'm just I like Katherine Brighill.

Oh, and it there's actually she worked They were

actually developing that before the whole thing

went down with the London. So I'm kind of curious

how that how that all plays out This is 40. I

like Paul read a lot. I always find him funny.

I just find him a very likable So I'm interested

in that Jack Reacher with Tom Cruise. I don't

know it he that character doesn't work for Tom

Cruise It's just like he trying to be like this

big tough guy and he doesn't seem like the role

for him But like you I speaks in a mission movies.

Damn it Like you I can't wait for Django Unchained.

I love Tarantino and Christopher Waltz and you

know, Jamie Foxx and The character Leonardo DiCaprio

looks really fun in that too. So I I love that

movie love his style I love every pretty much

everything about it. So I'm really looking forward

to that as well Mike or Steve any thoughts on

the December films? Nope No, not really overall.

I think that the The rest of the year has a few

gems, you know, wide -release gems. There's a

few hidden gems that might not get as much attention.

There are maybe four or five that I'll go see

in the theater, but the rest of them, for me,

I like watching movies at home. I don't like

going out into the theater. Before we give our

top picks and... wrap it up or whatever. I just

had one question I wanted to pose to you just

to see what you guys' predictions are as far

as money -wise. Right now we sit in 2012 with

the Avengers blowing everything out of the water

as far as money goes at 617. With Dark Knight

Rises at 413, Hunger Games at 407, and Spider

-Man way down at 257 obviously. With the the

big ones that are coming out as far as Twilight

and The Hobbit Do you think where do you think

they fall in with Avengers Dark Knight Rises

and Hunger Games? Will any of them beat any of

those? Hobbit's gonna blow everything away. Even

Avengers? I don't know if it'll come It's either

gonna come like right in second place to Avengers,

but as far as like everything else in the rest

of the year Hobbit's gonna blow everything else

outside of the conflict movies away. I Think

I think it's I'd like to think that but the Breaking

dark part 2. I mean you have a huge dedicated

fan base to that film And I think that it's I

think it's gonna be a lot more competitive than

we realize unfortunately I think the Avengers

is still gonna be number one and dark nights

still gonna be number two Maybe the Hobbit 3

and I probably I don't know if anything will

actually get above the Hunger Games because at

best I think you would see the Hunger Games and

Breaking dawn are gonna be around the same around

same rang because like, you know the same it's

the same type of fan base So I'm sure that they'll

get a lot of crossover there, but I think Avengers

is gonna stay number one. I don't see anyone

Getting that like that movie was an event and

I don't think anything else coming out this year

is gonna be quite like the Avengers Yeah, I wouldn't

be surprised if Hobbit beats, you know comes

in at number two I can't see anything beating

Avengers. I mean Avengers is third On all time

now as far as domestic behind Titanic and avatar

So I can't see anything beating Avengers, but

I could see how bit sneaking in right around

Hunger Games Dark Knight Rises somewhere in that

territory But it might be interesting to see

money wise, you know where they all fall as far

as Top picks for the rest of the year the ones

were most looking forward to Mike What are you

most looking forward to in the rest of 2012?

As far as a you know actually going to the theater

I don't really reckon Ralph is it for me. I did

say I might go see some of the other ones, but

honestly, like I've said before multiple times

and I'm tired of being a broken record, it's

mainly the big summer films and I'm just, I don't

know if I want to have to pay between, depending

on if Sky Falls in 3D or not, I don't think it

is, but I don't have to pay movie theater prices

and then you know, have to rent it later. So

I probably reckon Ralph is the only thing I'm

actually going to actually actively go see in

theaters the rest of the year. Steve? I'm looking

forward to mostly the action movies this year,

a few animated films. I don't think that any

of them except for The Hobbit has a chance in

hell at getting anywhere near any of the previous

hits of the year. But I mean, I see Twilight

breaking in some dough, but I still think The

Hobbit is going to hit number three for the year

below Avengers and Dark Knight. Oh, I did. I

did want to say real quick that there is another

animated movie that is scheduled for sometime

in 2012, unless it has gotten pushback, but it

doesn't have a firm date. And that's Dorothy

of Oz. And I am actually really looking forward

to that. It looks like an incredible version

animated version of Dorothy of Oz or of the Wizard

of Oz. It's got Martin Short, Dan Aykroyd, Kelsey

Grammer, James Belushi, Patrick freaking Stewart.

It just looks cool. So if that does happen to

come out for 2012, along with Rise of the Guardians,

those will be the animated ones I'm most looking

forward to. As far as my overall films, there's

so many unique and cool things that are just

Don't know. I'm really excited to see that. I

couldn't quite get down to five I got it down

to eight the words killing them softly cloud

atlas Lincoln life of pie Django and chained

Hyde Park on Hudson and the Hobbit So I've got

a lot of stuff looking forward to the rest of

this year Dan My top ones are or skyfall Django

and chained killing them softly looper zero dark

30 Hyde Park on Hudson, Life of Pi, Argo, Wreck

-It Ralph, and Flight are the ones I'm definitely

going to see in theaters and the ones I'm really

looking forward to this year. Alright, so I guess

we'll have to wait until our end of the year

discussion to see how some of these stacked up

or how some of them disappointed us or surprised

us when we wrap up the entire year in film. Mike?

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